Remote Conection Through Right Click

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Hi All, does anyone kow of a way to add remote esktop to the right
click menu?
so when i am browing the network i can right click a computer and start
mstsc with that computer name as the arguement?

THanks for the help in advance.

Jason
 
Never tried to do that...

If your in a domain environment you can browse for RDP enabled
desktops/servers using the Remote Desktop connectoid. Simply select "Browse
for more..." in the address pull-down.

If your in a work group environment you can apply a registry hack to your
PCs to allow browsing through the connectoid "Browse for more..."
function...

READ THESE TWO KB ARTICLE FIRST!!!!!!

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;256986

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;322756

The hack...

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;281307

Otherwise you could also simply create a custom RDP file for each PC you
want to routinely connect to then place a shortcut to that file on your
desktop. I do that on my small home LAN...

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